Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Glossary of the new Magdalenian words, more figurative
compounds, part 1

ACCA --- earth (ac) sky (ca), where earth and sky are
meeting (possible original name of Göbekli Tepe, written
as a lying H); Indo-European earth goddess akka
(a stammered name according to Pokorny, a meaningful
name in my opinion), Latin aqua for water, several Swiss
rivers are called Aa, Romantsch aua for water, German
Au or Aue for a wide river landscape

AD DA --- toward (ad) from (da), a river flowing toward
the sea, coming from the mountains; English water

AS SA --- upward (as) downward (sa), vapors, smoke
of a sacrificial fire and prayers for rain ascending to the
sky, rain falling from the sky, irrigating the fields and
filling the river beds; German Wasser for water

All three figurative compounds AC CA and AD DA and
AS SA would denote water, water in motion, moving
between earth and sky, and moving on earth, flowing
from one to another place ...

SA AS might have become Latin sax- for rock, while
the original form might have survived in the village
name of Saas Fee in the Swiss Alps.

AC CA AS might be a figurative compound designating
the sun horse moving between earth (ac) and sky (ca)
in upward direction (as), wherefrom *ekwos equus 'horse'.

PAC AS might be the horse (pac) in upward direction (as),
origin of the winged horse Pegasos, while the inverse form
AS PAC might have become Old Indic as'vah for horse.

PAD AD DA --- he who goes (pad, activity of feet) toward
(ad) coming from (da), he who follows rivers; Doric Poteidas,
oldest version of Poseidon, lord of the water (Michael Janda)

PAD AD DA, PAS TON --- he who follows rivers, getting
everywhere (pas) and making himself heard (ton);
Poteidas Poseidaon Poseidon

Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch

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Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 66, a test (thirty-six)

In the same brillant paper Michael Janda interprets
the epithet of Hermes argeiphontes as bringer of dawn,
and while the name of Hermes is usually explained via
herma 'cairn, heap of stones', Janda explains it via eiro
'to fasten together in rows' from older *herio < *serio
cognate with Latin serere 'to link together'.

I explain the name of Hermes via Magdalenian CER
MAS --- divine stag, divine hind, shaman, shamaness
(cer) master (mas, actually the chief bull hunter). The
divine stags are seen in the rotunda of the Lascaux
cave, in front of the red sunhorse: midsummer sun
rising, and of the white bull beside her whose symbol
of nine elements indicates a full moon, hence a full
moon occuring on midsummer, begin of an ideal
calendar cycle. The heavenly version of the stags
are the summer constellations of Scorpio and
Sagittarius, representing the antlers of the divine
stag who protects the sun horse on her journey
across the sky during day, through the Underworld
by night, and (as shown in the rotunda) when leaving
the Underworld and ascending to the sky, hence the
divine stags in the rotunda of Lascaux are not really
the bringers but the protectors of dawn ...

Hermes links together, and the master shaman of old
who handled the complex Magdalenian calendar of
Lascaux linked together earth and sky as represented
by their cycles of days, lunations, and years, and his
tool of calculation was a heap of pebbles that he laid
out on a clay bank as his personal Stone Age computer
-- Windows 14,375 BC, if you allow me a joke.

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Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 65, a test (thirty-five)

Michael Janda, in: The Religion of the Indo-Europeans
(Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual UCAL Indo-
European Conference, 2005/6) proposes the first
convincing etymology of Poseidon: the oldest form is
Doric Poteidas, a petrified vocative Potei-das, lord
of the Da, lord of the water. Poteidas would owe his
existence to an epithet of the Indo-European god of the
beyond, Varuna, whose title was: pati danunas 'lord of
the heavenly water'.

I explain Poseidon via PAS TON --- everywhere (pas)
sound (ton), he who gets everywhere and makes himself
heard. Poteidas can't be explained this way, so I infer
a second root, Potei- from PAD, and -da genitive -das
an abbreviation of the figurative compound AD DA:

PAD --- activity of feet, he who goes

AC CA --- earth (ac) sky (ca); Indo-European earth
godess akka (Pokorny), Latin aqua for water

AD DA --- toward (ad) from (da), water in motion,
coming from somewhere, going somewhere else;
English water

AS SA --- upward (as) downward (sa), water rising and
falling, ascending vapors, also prayers for water ascending
to the sky, smoke of a sacrificial fire imploring rain reaching
the gods, rain falling from the clouds, irrigating the meadows
and fields and filling the river beds; German Wasser for
water

AC CA akwa aqua softened to Romantsch aua for water,
Swiss Aa for many a small river, German Au or Aue for
a wide river landscape with many water arms and a rich
vegetation and birdlife, while a rump form of AD DA would
have become Da for water and to flow.

The full name of the god would then have been a double
compund becoming one:

PAS TON, PAD AD DA or inverse PAD AD DA, PAS TON
--- he who gets everywhere and makes himself heard;
he who goes toward after he came from, as the waters of
the rivers do; he who follows rivers, and like water he gets
everywhere, overcoming every obstacle in the way, and
then makes himself heard wherever he comes to ...

If this holds, the sound shift from Poteidas to Poseidon
would not have been aimlessly but was regaining
hypothetical PAS TON: Poteidas Poseidaon Poseidon.

(to be continued)

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Appendix to the glossary of the new Magdalenian words,
part 64, a test (thirty-four)

In another thread Douglas G. Kilday informed me that
Mycenaean ator(oqo) and Greek anthr(opos) have
a cognate in English under. If so, Magdalenian AD TOR
was not just a part of the Minoan designation of a bull
leaper AD TOR OC CO (toward bull eye reason, as
explained in a previous message) but a formula going
back to the Aurigniacian: humans facing a bull; people
facing the bison man from Chauvet, supreme ruler of
the lower Rhone Valley, whose heavenly abode was the
Summer Triangle Vega Deneb Atair; people meeting their
fate; humans exposed to a supreme or divine power.

Homer's Odyssey begins with the word Andra ...
Andromeda, Andromache and Kassandra were meeting
fate in their own way each. Basque andere means young
woman - a young woman faces her husband, the word
for to marry a woman in ancient Greek is domazo 'I tame'.
Consider also the erotic drawings and etchings by Picasso
that show a bull or a Minotaur taking a young woman.
A Greek slave andropodos was an underling, while a human
being anthropos was subjected to the gods, and in the case
of a slave also to a human master or mistress, wherefrom
the second meaning of anthropos 'slave' - in combination
with the fact that many Cretans worked as artisans and
slaves after Crete had been taken over by the Mycenaeans
in around 1450 BP.

If my interpretation holds, the inconspicuous word 'under'
has an amazing etymology: AD TOR --- toward (ad) bull
(tor); facing a bull; facing the bison man; being in the
presence of a supreme or divine power; meeting fate,
being made a winner or loser, lord or slave; also bearing
the consequences of own's own deeds - the comrades
of Odysseus perish because they attacked the forbidden
cattle of Helios; also coping with the challenges of life -
Andra at the begin of Homer's Odyssey.

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